With news of multimillion-dollar lawsuits arising from President Donald Trump administration’s military incursion to apprehend Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, America’s drug problem remains front and center. The White House demonstrated it believes a military campaign against alleged drug trafficking from Venezuela is central to ...Read more

Before June, when the ICE raids first began in Los Angeles, Daniel Sosa had not been active in the immigrants' rights movement. A cannabis dispensary owner, he'd previously directed his political energy to fights around legalization and the implementation of California's onerous rules around weed dispensaries.

On June 6, however, the first day ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani must immediately reverse his policy of allowing homeless encampments to proliferate on the streets of NYC. Fourteen New Yorkers have already died on the streets amid record-breaking cold, and the encampment sweeps initiated by Mayor Adams could well prove a critical tool in averting any more needless fatalities.

With some ...Read more

Anyone who tuned into the middle of Sen. Eric Schmitt’s furious floor speech on Wednesday might have been momentarily confused at why the MAGA Missouri Republican was condemning those who “deploy organized mob violence to undermine the expressed will of the people when democracy doesn’t go their way.”

No, he wasn’t talking about ...Read more

The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, followed by the victim-blaming slanders from Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, may finally have exhausted the public’s patience with the Trump administration.

We can only hope.

It bears remembering that, aside from the agents themselves, the crimes of ICE are the responsibility of amoral politicians ...Read more

No, you don’t have to vaccinate your children. That is, if you don’t mind watching them die.

That’s not precisely how Kirk Milhoan, a Hawaii physician who chairs the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, expressed himself the other day. But it’s the plain gist of the message he sent in a podcast interview that has ...Read more

The arrest of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, in connection with an anti-ICE protest that interrupted a church service in Minnesota, is a test for the American people. Well, some of us. Many of us already didn't like what we saw happening across the country. Many believed the un-American threats during the campaign and voted ...Read more

How do you find the missing?

If you do find them, how can you help?

Oakland, California, civil rights attorney James Cook has been on the ground in Minnesota for months figuring out answers to these question as he goes.

A fast-talking Minneapolis native who still lives in the Twin Cities part time, Cook is one of a handful of attorneys who ...Read more

When President Donald Trump called on Iranian demonstrators to “KEEP PROTESTING — TAKE OVER THE INSTITUTIONS” in early January and pledged “HELP IS ON THE WAY,” I feared a shameful episode of American betrayal was about to be repeated.

“We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” he had promised these brave Iranians, fed up with ...Read more

The census data just released brought fantastic news for us hale and hearty Midwesterners: We’re growing.

It’s true. Our mighty region, overlooked — and often looked down upon, particularly by our coastal compatriots — was the one region in the U.S. where all states saw population growth from July 2024 to July 2025.

The region’s ...Read more

American politics has become so nationalized that many people—especially students—no longer know where their participation ought to be focused. Every issue feels federal, every fight existential, and every outcome distant.

The result isn’t apathy so much as exhaustion: a sense that politics is something to watch, not something to ...Read more

At the end of last year, Los Angeles County adopted a new target to remove and replace 1,600 acres of pavement with green infrastructure including trees, plants and rain gardens by 2045 as part of its ongoing Sustainability Plan. In doing so, the county aims to join a growing number of cities worldwide that are ditching pavement to respond to ...Read more

Imagine opening a history textbook and not seeing the faces of key contributors to America's story. Every February, America observes Black History Month. It started in 1926 as Negro History Week, founded by historian Carter G. Woodson, and was never meant to be just a ceremony. Its purpose was to make the nation face the truth after erasing ...Read more

If health is the new wealth, luxury brands need to command a share of this spending.

From billionaires wanting to live forever to $300,000 facelifts, the uber-rich are splurging more than ever on what they put inside their bodies and how they exercise, rather than simply splashing out on clothes and accessories. This outlay competes with ...Read more

Do President Donald Trump’s policies have staying power? Conventional Beltway wisdom would suggest no. But we are not in conventional times.

It’s long been assumed that legislative actions have more sticking power than executive ones. That’s by design. The legislative process is cumbersome and messy, but ultimately it is shaped by 535 ...Read more

The Trump administration’s response to the two recent killings in Minneapolis has achieved the peculiar distinction of being both horrifying and ridiculous at the same time — like watching “The Death of Stalin,” except without the self-awareness or the courtesy of being fiction.

One of the faces of this farce is that of Kristi Noem, the...Read more

Some of the prominent Democrats interested in pursuing the presidency appear confused about what it takes to win the White House.

How else to explain their ducking and dissembling on the politically charged issue of transgender rights, helpfully reported by the “Axios 2028” newsletter. Reporters Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein asked ...Read more

A recent IBM survey of 2,000 executives on their expectations for artificial intelligence in 2030 revealed something noteworthy. They unsurprisingly predict that AI investment will surge (from already high levels) and that 79% expect AI will contribute significantly to their revenue. But strikingly, only 24% “clearly see” where that revenue ...Read more

Life-or-death decisions in thousands of cases are made every year by immigration judges— but don’t let their title give you the wrong idea about their position.

In America we have the expectation that judges are independent, allowing them to rule without “fear or favor” in the cases that come before them. But immigration judges have ...Read more

Congress and the courts have all but destroyed the thing that made college sports so special, the idea of amateur student athletes competing for their schools in exchange for a free education and the opportunity to display their skills on a stage that could lead them to the professional sports leagues.

Now, with the NCAA increasingly losing ...Read more